Resources for
Labs 1 Through 10
- 2001, A Space Odyssey
- An archive of information about the movie written by Arthur C. Clarke, and featuring the HAL 9000 computer.
- Abacus Applet
- A java-implementation of a working Abacus, and information on how to use one.
- Adobe Magazine Archive (magazine has been discontinued)
- Online articles on design, typesetting, and imagesmithing.
- Adobe Photoshop 6.0
- Top features of the most widely used graphics publishing software.
- Ada Lovelace Notes
- Ada Lovelace's notes on her translation of Menebrea's paper on Babbage's Analytical Engine.
- Alan Turing Comprehensive
- Comprehensive Alan Turing Page.
- Alan Turing Page
- Comprehensive Alan Turing resource.
- Alan Turing's biography
- Seven pages of biographical information.
- Alta Vista Search Engine
- by Digital Equipment Corp.
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An Intellectual Property Primer
- Survey of intellectual property laws.
- Atanasoff-Berry Computer
- Description of the very first electronic digital (single purpose) computer.
- Automatic Teller Machine-phobia
- An article from Georgia Tech on how training of older people can reduce their fear of ubiquitous new technologies, such as ATMs.
- Babbage
- by Schaffer: Pt. 3 - Calculating engines and their intelligence.
- Bare Bones Guide to HTML
- Excellent reference for intermediate HTML authors.
- Beginner's HTML
- At the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, home of Mosaic browsers, a beginner's guide to coding in HTML.
- Brief History of Computer Technology
- Brief sketch of the development of digital, electronic computers, part of a larger Web-book on computational
science; sponsored by the US Department of Energy.
- Brief History of the Internet
- From the Internet Society.
- Case Western Reserve U. Tutorial
- Award winning HTML tutorial.
- Charles Babbage
- Biography with pictures.
- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
- The Babbage difference engine.
- Charles Babbage Institute
- Dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of information processing.
- Chatterbots, Tinymuds, and the Turing Test
- Paper about the Loebner Prize (AI) competition.
- Chipping Away at VLSI Design
- An article on the history of chip design, and large scale integrated circuits.
- Chronology of Computer History
- Detailed timeline of international computing history. See also, the file museum.htm at this same URL. Sponsored by the Historical Computer Society.
- Chronology of Digital Computing Machines
- What was the first computer, and who built it?
- Chronology of Events in the History of Microcomputers
- Collection of product announcements and magazine articles.
- Civil Liberties
- ACLU page on Internet censorship.
- CNet News Service
- A news service that will let you customize your interests and send you weekly email with headlines.
- ColorCenter
- The absolute best color scheme tool available.
- Communications Decency Act - 1996
- Full text of the 1996 CDA ruling.
- Composing Good HTML
- A treatise by E. Tilton.
- Computer History Timeline
- A list of historical events in the evolution of computers, starting with the invention of the abacus.
- Copyright Website
- Lots of copyright information for the WWW.
- Corel Homepage
- Corel software company manufactures Wordperfect word processing software, Quatro Pro spreadsheet software, and a wide variety of graphics software.
- Creating HTML: A Simple Guide
- A simple, concise guide to writing HTML documents.
- DejaNews Search
- Searches news items and newsgroups.
- Disney's Fantasia
- The tale of the sorcerer's apprentice is given fantastic form in this classic Disney animated film. See clips and sound bytes here.
- DropStuff
- Drag and drop stuff/unstuff utility.
- Excite Search Engine
- Excite home.
- Expert Systems at Penn State
- The Penn State Agricultural Department has a number of experimental expert systems for agricultural management for you to try out.
- Federal Networking Council
- Official government definition of the Internet.
- Font Abuse!
- Sarcastic example of using inline images for font control.
- Galaxy Search Engine
- by Trade Wave Corp. A search engine and catalog of subjects.
- Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present
- Comprehensive information about many microprocessors.
- Good Hypertext Writing
- Musings on good text style in Web pages by Jutta Degener.
- HAL's Legacy
- A 25th anniversary celebration and book about the movie 2001, and the legacy of Arthur C. Clarke's vision of the future of computing through HAL 9000.
- Hamilton College
- The cool college where Rick and Stu weave their magic web
- Hexidecimal Color Chart
- A must know for people who want to keep their graphics and web-backgrounds from dithering.
- Historic Computer Images
- A collection of high resolution scans made by Mike Muuss for his Computer History archive.
- History of Alan Turing
- From "Alan Turing: the Enigma" by Andrew Hodges.
- History of Computers: Notes
- Computers: From the Past to the Present - a series of lecture notes from Michelle Hoyle at University of Regina, Canada. Uses Frames.
- History of Computing
- For the 50th anniversary of the ENIAC, IEEE celebrated by putting up this detailed history from the 1600's on.
- History of the Net
- The View from Internet Valley.
- HTML Bad Style Page
- Good explanation of why bad HTML is bad.
- HyperStand
- New Media magazine online: tools, reviews, tips
- InfoSeek Net Search
- InfoSeek home. Also a starting point for browsing "cool" sites.
- Intellectual Freedom and Censorship of the Internet
- Information on the issues of intellectual freedom, free speech, and censorhip of the Internet.
- The Interactive Factory
- A cool and groovy place where educational multimedia comes to life.
- Internet Caucus
- A group of US legislators trying to protect the Internet.
- Internet History
- From the Discovery Channel.
- J.A.N. Lee's History of Computing
- A collection of materials related to the history of computing.
- JM Web JavaScript Collection
- Working viewable examples with copyable code.
- Kasparov v. DeepBlue Page
- Comprehensive information on the rematch, and more, sponsored by IBM.
- Konrad Zuse (1910-1995)
- The Father of Modern Computers - long article on Zuse and the Z-family of computers.
- Konrad Zuse's work
- Zuse's own discussion of the Z-family of computers.
- Law of the Net: Problems and Prospects
- Thinking ahead about Internet legislation.
- Lotus 1-2-3
- Spec sheet for the very popular spreadsheet.
- Lycos Search Engine
- Lycos home. Now a commercial search engine: created at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Machine That Changed The World
- Outline of the major topics of presentation in each of the episodes of the video series.
- Managing the Virtual Commons
- Sociological view of cyberspace.
- Mark/Space Virtual Reality
- Colorful site of VR information, glossary, and links.
- Micro History
- History of the microcomputer revolution by Frank Delaney at the Washington State University.
- Microsoft Excel 97
- Product brochure for the newest version of Excel spreadsheet software.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Why IE is better than Netscape Navigator 3.0... for the moment.
- Don't be Cowed by the MOO
- Information and pointers to educational Multi-User Domains (Dungeons) and other virtual environments.
- MUD Catalog
- Kent State Department of Education lists all the MOOs/MUDs that are fit to print.
- Multimedia Graphics Listing
- Maintained by Maricopa college, this is a vast resource of images for you to browse.
- NCSA HTML Primer
- The heavily requested NCSA beginner's guide to HTML.
- NetLingo
- A dictionary of the Internet language.
- Netscape's DevEdge Online
- A developer's dream site, with documentation on HTML, JavaScript, and a host of other Netscape technologies.
- Netscape Guide to HTML
- A listing of on and off-site resources for style and composition of HTML documents.
- Netscape's JavaScript
- A description of this scripting language from the developers, and pointers to the reference guide and some examples.
- Netscape Navigator 3.0
- Standards and features of the Netscape browser version 3.0.
- Newspage
- A customizable news service.
-
Odyssey Science Center
- A summary of the devices leading to the development of the modern computer.
- PBS Internet timeline
- From the PBS series Life on the Internet.
- PC Therapist
- By a three-time Loebner winner.
- Pictures from Computing History
- Photo archive from David Wessels of James Cook University.
- PKZip
- The original zip/unzip
utility.
- Privacy Pages
- Source for Internet privacy issues.
- QuickTime VR
- An overview of Apple's QuickTime VR surround-view moviemaking technology.
- Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi
- Comprehensive guide to all HTML commands and methods.
- Slide Rule - Historic
- Old manufacturers information on a slide rule.
- Slide Rule on the WWW
- The Amazing WWW Slide Rule lets you calculate logs online.
- Stuffit Expander
- Most widely used Mac stuff/unstuff utility.
- Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics
- From the Computer Ethics Institute.
- Texas Instruments History
- History of the early TI calculators.
- Tips, Tricks, How-to, and Beyond
- Great source for HTML basics and insightful tips.
- Tools for Thought
- By Howard Rheingold: Ch. 2 - The First Programmer Was a Lady.
- Turing Institute Home Page
- Links, pictures, etcetera.
- US Army History of Computing Information
- Documents from the home of the ENIAC: The U. S. Army Research Lab.
- Virtual Museum of Computing
- Wonderful listings of computing history, computing resources, images, etc.
- Virtual Reality Lab at UM
- University of Michigan site concentrating on VR.
- Visual Basic
- Microsoft's VB site.
- Volume Controls in Cyberspace?
- First Amendment questions about the Internet.
- VRML Authoring Tools
- List of Virtual Reality Machine Language tools, and a language description. One of the most way-out applications we know of.
- Webcrawler
- Search engine originally from U. Colorado.
- Webmaster's Reference
- How-to articles on all aspects of WWW publishing.
- WebTV
- Magnavox's WebTV site.
- WinZip
- Windows 3.1 and 95 graphical zip/unzip utility.
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Women & Computers
- From Ada and the Difference Engine to Sandra Bullock in *The Net*.
- World Wide Web Consortium
- Home of the WWW Project, as started and continued by T. Berners-Lee.
- World Wide Web Primer
- Written by N. Torkington in New Zealand, this primer talks about the origins of the Web and explains protocols, networking, etc.
- WWW Frequently Asked Questions
- Written by T. Boutell and Boutell Com., Inc.: everything you always wanted to know about the Web (in multiple languages yet) but were afraid to know.
- Yahoo Web Search and Directory
- Cataloged and searchable listings from Yahoo, an outgrowth of the Stanford Web cataloging project.
- Yale Web Style Guide
- Combines traditional editorial approaches to documents with technical authoring skills.
- ZipIt Homepage
- Unzip utility for the Macintosh.
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